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Florida Keys Blackbead

Pithecellobium keyense

Found in Coastal strands and grasslands, shell middens, rockland hammocks, pine rocklands. Weakley, Flora of the Southeastern United States (2025), Florida edition What its natural habitat tells you

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Native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?

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At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

This plant is missing most of its facts, so Quercus is looking them up in old botany books.

Recorded in 6 Florida counties.

Natural habitats

Places it grows wild. Not a planting requirement. Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.

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Prairies and grasslands

Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County
Limestone prairie. Shown: Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Georgia, a neighboring state.Grand Prairie, Coosa Valley Prairies, Floyd County, Alan M. Cressler / U.S. Geological Survey, undated. Public domain. Source record.

Coastal Plain hammocks

Dense, evergreen groves of live oak, magnolia and other hardwoods in the southern Coastal Plain, from dry oak domes to wet hydric hammocks and south Florida's tropical hammocks; salt-shaped maritime hammocks are maritime forests.

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Also found with this plant

Wildlife whose habitat models include habitats this plant grows in, in Florida. Shared habitat, not food. 145 animals.

All wildlife of Florida

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

19CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Pithecellobium

  • Ascalapha odorataBlack Witch
  • Coxina cinctipalpisBlack-Waved Owlet
  • Cyclargus thomasiMiami Blue
  • Leptotes cassiusCassius Blue, Tropical Striped Blue
  • Melipotis januarisJanuary Melipotis, January Graphic
  • Phoebis agaritheLarge Orange Sulphur, Orange Giant Sulphur
  • Phoebis phileaOrange-Barred Sulphur
  • Platynota rostranaOmnivorous Platynota
  • Pleuroprucha insulsariaCommon Tan Wave
  • Selenisa sueroidesTailpipes, Pale-Edged Selenisa Moth
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  • Synchlora xysterariaSinged Emerald
  • Tyrissa multilineaThe Bravo, Multi-Lined Tyrissa
  • Cydia fahlbergiana
  • Cydia largo
  • Eucosmophora pithecellobiae
  • Ithome aquila
  • Ithome simulatrix
  • Phidotricha erigens
  • Sarasota plumigerella
Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)
2BeesSoutheastern regional records

Southeastern regional records · Pithecellobium

Individual names are not available yet.

Noori, Seltmann & Orr 2026, A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions (GloBI), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0
0Specialist beesPollen specialists
—BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

No records yet · Ants · Beetles · Flies · Adult butterflies / moths · Other wasps · Other insects

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family
Fabaceae

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Conservation status

Florida rankSNR
Global rankNot available
FL statusNot verified
Federal statusNot verified

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